Lung cancer patients do not necessarily have coughing symptoms

Lung cancer has almost become a human killer in modern society, and people are looking for answers to the symptoms of lung cancer. Because the symptoms of lung cancer may include coughing, some people will become suspicious once they cough and mistakenly think they have lung cancer, which is not advisable.

Lung cancer is a common malignant tumor, and its incidence has been increasing in recent years. Its typical symptoms are persistent cough, blood in sputum, dyspnea, chest pain, etc. With the widespread publicity of medical science over the years, when patients have the above symptoms, most of them can attract the attention of themselves and their families and go to the hospital for treatment in time.

However, a small number of patients have special symptoms of lung cancer. For example, they do not have respiratory symptoms such as coughing and hemoptysis, but instead have symptoms such as bone and joint pain, neck swelling, upper abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and headache. They often visit the orthopedics, physical therapy, and infectious disease departments repeatedly. If the doctors in these departments lack vigilance, it is very easy to cause misdiagnosis and mistreatment, which will bring irreversible consequences to the patients. Based on my many years of clinical experience, I believe that the following points can help patients and doctors to detect atypical lung cancer in a timely manner.

Patients with a history of smoking should consider the possibility of lung cancer if they experience unexplained bone and joint pain or headaches, even if they do not have respiratory symptoms.

Patients with pneumonia that has not been cured for a long time in the same area should be alert to the symptoms of lung cancer. Patients who cannot be diagnosed clearly by chest X-ray and CT examination can undergo fiberoptic bronchoscopy to help diagnose.

For people over 40 years old, it is best to have a chest X-ray once a year if possible.

Patients with clinical manifestations similar to those of lung cancer but normal chest X-rays should undergo further CT examination because CT is more sensitive than chest X-rays in detecting lung cancer.

The sputum exfoliative cytology examination is simple, easy and harmless to the patient. We should give full play to the role of this examination method to help clarify the diagnosis.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms of lung cancer. I hope everyone can pay attention to the details in life. Experts remind that if you can't tell the type of disease, the best way is to go to the hospital for examination and don't take medicine at random.

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